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Re-Stash Craft Appeal – Australia

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Gifford, Miriam Bain and Micky Hasted…
With so many South East Queenslander?s losing a little or the lot in the recent floods,
the girls decided to run this appeal to get the local crafters back into the swing of things
to start creating again.
“We are looking for donations, anything to do with craft. From scrapbooking to fabrics,
buttons to thread, anything to help these beautiful and strong creative souls get back
into their studios to start their creative journey again” Says Liesa
Donations are being taking at The Handmade Expo on the Saturday 19th February
between 8am-2pm at the Ipswich Turf Club…

Crafters who need these items to get back into their creative spaces can then rummage
through the items at either Handmade Heaven in the Old Flour Mill or Mimmi?s at Forest
Hill the week following the market.
“We don?t want anyone to be shy, this Appeal is open to anyone creative and anyone
who was flood affected a little or a lot” says Micky.
“The donation response has been amazing” said Miriam “You can really see that
handmadies stick together and really help each other out when in need”
“Handmade is Love and that is what we are seeing from Handmadies all across
Australia, with donations even being sent up from South Australia” Liesa said.
So, if you have a craft supply donation, head on down to The Handmade Expo and
drop it off and if you need craft supplies, be sure to drop into Handmade Heaven or
Mimmis the week following the market.
The girls are also taking gold coin donations at the front gate with all money going to
the Ipswich Mayors Community Fund.

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Comments

  1. Is it possible to organize drop points with relief agencies in each state for craft supplies please?

  2. Is there an address we can mail things to? I’m not close enough to donate in person but I’d like to be a part of the effort. Thanks!

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Build a Paper City with Free Printables

My daughter’s school has project-based finals instead of tests in the spring, and in her geometry class last year the students constructed a scale model of a town complete with three-dimensional buildings. 

Of course building a paper town doesn’t have to include a geometry lesson (they also calculated the volume of their buildings) but it is a fun way to get kids to express their creativity by decorating the buildings and talking about the things they would want to include in their own town. 

Putting buildings together is a test of fine-motor skills, and if kids are working on a town together they’ll need to negotiate what goes where and why. 

Get started with the house printables from Kids Activities Blog. They’ve got a “plain” roof house and a “fancy” roof house to choose from. Just print, color, cut out and assemble. 

You might want more than just houses in your little town, though, so I went hunting for some more printable templates you can use to make different kinds of buildings. 

Brother has printable skyscrapers, cars, people, trees and lights (shown above) that are meant to be printed in color buy you can do them in black and white so kids can color them in if you want.

Printablee has another colorized set of paper buildings including different kinds of houses and something that maybe looks like a church or school. 

If you’re willing and bale to pay for printables to use in your paper town, there are lots of great ones available on Etsy. Ludlow Prints has a collection with a school, grocery store, bakery and other buildings, while Paper Fun By Yumi includes things like a hospital, fire department and police station (essential if you’ve done a community helpers unit!). 

Tiger Bee Learning has a printable set with 20 different buildings, including a bank, library, museum and zoo to name a few, as well as a blank template for kids to design their own buildings. Once you have the basics of making a piece of paper into a 3D building down, kids are sure to want to make their own buildings to add to the town. 

Older kids can also write about why they picked the buildings they did, and littler kids will have fun building their town over and over again. 

[Photo: Brother]